Part of the Fringe Central Programme for Fringe participants. Artist, technician, venue staff or audience member – you’ll know the pains as well as the joys of the Fringe. This is your chance to help make the Fringe work better for the very people who give it reason. You. Bring your own questions and ideas – you set the agenda and nothing is censored. An open space – come for as much or as little as you want.
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We are DISCO DISCO - a new theatre company of artists with disabilities, born out of Club Soda in Croydon and led by Drunken Chorus.
We are relative newcomers to the disability arts scene. We’re learning all the time, and we want to connect with other organisations working in disability arts, and with artists and companies with disabilities to work on how we can all connect and support each other: to make friends, connections and future collaborations.
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I'm Miranda Debenham and I'm a small scale subsidised producer and marketer. I'm at the start of my career and I'm already frustrated by the gap I see between the commercial and subsidised sectors. It seems to me that there is a giant chasm between the two groups, but that if they could work together both sides could improve their work, and improve our whole industry! Maybe I could even stop referring to them as sides.
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An invitation from Amie Taylor, Editor-in-Chief at The LGBTQ Arts Review
Having run The LGBTQ Arts review for two years, I am thrilled at how much theatre we get invited to that falls under the LGBTQ Theatre umbrella. We have reviewed some 150+ shows over the two years and featured almost as many interviews with artists that identify as LGBT+ or are creating work featuring LGBT+ narratives.
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Satellite D&D with Jess and Callan from Equity's Young Member's Committee to address the big issue of working class representation and employment on stage. How can we challenge education, discrimination and funding difficulties working class artists face today?
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An invitation from Griffyn Gilligan:
Hello! I’m an actor and theatre maker with ASD: Autism Spectrum Disorder. More and more companies and venues are thinking about being accessible to audiences with autism - holding relaxed performances, creating visual guides, and creating work specifically for young people with autism. These steps are just the beginning of some great things.
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Hello,
This is Flo, Artistic Director of The Human Zoo Theatre Company, a Croydon-based touring theatre company, established in 2013, supported by Croydon Council, Arts Council England and TMRW. We've grown up in and around Croydon, but so far as an arts organisation, we've found it difficult to make work here, in our home town.
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A satellite D&D - "Old actors. Old age. The more I think about it the harder I find it to distinguish between the process of being an old actor and the business of being an old person."
When old age seems to become a barrier, how do we re-engage with the process and the business?
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AN INVITATION FROM ABE POPOOLA, ACTOR.
I'm an actor just graduated from RADA and have been frustrated with the homogenisation of people of colours and their diverse stories within dramatic art.
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I’m Vera Chok and I’m an actor, writer and performance maker. What has changed since the 2013 D&D on East Asian actors and roles? While East Asians are more visible and have achieved huge successes, I believe that we are still being marginalised despite being the third largest ethnic group in the UK.
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Following the previous three D&Ds (Leeds and London) focusing on the impact of leaving the EU on the arts, this Open Space event keeps the conversation going and joins the dots across the country.
In a city that voted in large numbers for remain, how do we reach out and hear different voices?
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A one day Open Space event for us to talk all things musical theatre, specifically: how are we going to develop new musical theatre better, to ensure that both the writers and the work can reach their full potential?
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Following the previous two D&Ds (Leeds and London) focusing on the impact of leaving the EU on the arts, this Open Space event keeps the conversation going and joins the dots across the country.
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Basingstoke and Deane Local Authority want to hear from us!
We (the artistic community) are exactly the right people to tell the council how it feels to be an artist based here and what issues are close to our hearts, and to ask how, beyond funding, can they support us to develop.
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Satellite D&D with James Brining, Artistic Director of West Yorkshire Playhouse.
Exploration of how to work across traditional boundaries between disciplines. Inspired by the co-production of Opening Skinner's Box.
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Satellite D&D at Vault Fest
In a world where standards, systems, tastes and values are all dictated by men - and those values say that women are worth less, and are only worth something when they are young - how do we build a future?
Discussing combatting ageism and sexism in theatre.
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Satellite D&D at Vault Fest
It is great that more theatre, and art in general, is exploring the stigma and experience of being depressed. But why aren't we talking about other mental health problems?
Digging deeper to work out how to be more inclusive in art.
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Satellite D&D at Vault Fest
"Let’s get together to work on how our differences are exactly what might help us. Our different viewpoints put together become stronger and make more sense of the world. Our differences are exactly what we share. They help us create great art. These things might at least help us to get a better political outlook."
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Mid-scale touring theatre is fighting for its life. It is struggling to find big audiences and is up against a rising tide of comedy, music and film events with many venues expecting to make a loss on their live theatre shows.
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An invitation from Slavka Jovanović, Director of Suspense Festival:
I recently saw an anarchic punk puppetry show, with no ‘puppets’ in it. One of the most exhilarating shows I’ve seen. But no puppets; some might have been disappointed, having expected a marionette or a wood carved table-top rod puppet. None in sight.
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The second annual D&D Open Space event focused on outdoor arts. Discussions on how our particular art can be made; in streets, parks, city squares and other outdoor spaces across the country.
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Satellite D&D - with socially engaged practice being so hard to define, let's talk about how we can tackle the challenges and embrace the opportunities of making this kind of work, and what the future might hold for us.
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Keeping the Space Open:
Were you at D&D10 or D&D North back in January and have some conversations left unfinished, or some sessions that you'd wished you'd called? Did you miss them, or have you read a report that made you wish you were there?
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Following "Devoted and Disgruntled: The Invisible Army" held at The Young Vic, this is a regional focused D&D event to discuss in an open space format the role of independent producers and how we can support them.
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Satellite D&D with artist Wendy Houstoun.
"We hereby declare and restate our intent on action and action only.
From this moment our only intention is : to think about and make work."
Discussions on how to bring back spontaneity and freedom of art.
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Inspired by a conversation about the proposed axing of 'soft subjects', this is a D&D focused on the arts in education.
Are arts and sport important? Do they have a place in state education? Is there a happy medium?
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Michael White, Head of Arts Development warmly invites you, valued colleagues working in performance across Cornwall, to gather and share your thoughts on the future of culture in the region.
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With the general election under a year away, this D&D will focus on funding the arts.
Could it be a vote winning policy? Will any party make it a prominent feature of an election campaign? Why is it important?
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Regional D&D held on the Isle of Wight.
"We have great heritage, a wealth of artisan craft makers and an inspiring and diverse natural landscape, but what about the arts in our cultural landscape? What about the artists? The theatre makers, visual artists, musicians, dancers, sculptors and the rest. Why make work here? What would make working here better?"
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Hi, I’m Stephe.
And I’m a storyteller.
When I say ‘storytelling’ I mean an improvised re-telling of a traditional tale, a modern practice inspired by ancient oral arts, an intimate live encounter between teller and audience. But I also work with actors, with writers, with directors and with devisers. And - guess what? They all call themselves storytellers too.
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Third North East regional D&D held in Newcastle with Live Theatre and The Empty Space.
Four years on from NE2, there has been enormous change. Here we delve into the question 'what are we going to do about theatre and the performing arts in the North East?'
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Satellite D&D with Puppet Centre
We need your help to discover how Puppet Centre can be ahead of the game in order to support the puppetry of the future. We also want to hear about what excites, frustrates and inspires you about puppetry and Puppet Centre.
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Satellite D&D addressing the current crisis facing British theatre: decline in training of drama teachers, closing of youth theatres, 23% of secondary school drama courses stopped, reduced education provision in theatres. What can we do?
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This satellite is the chance for all levels of arts managers, artists and makers to talk about their experiences of generating income, share what does (or doesn’t) work and maybe even trigger new ideas that grow new platforms, performances and a modern industry.
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